Hi Sherry,
Here are my thoughts. It sounds that for the most part you are OK with your iPhone 5 except wired headphones don’t seem to work reliably and the battery has a few issues. As for the battery, have you checked if your iPhone is one of those which qualifies for a free battery replacement? If not, as you said, using an external battery case seems to get you by for now and you could of course find an iPhone repair place and ask how much they would charge to put in a new battery. Here is the link where you can enter your iPhone’s serial number to check if it qualifies for the battery replacement: https://www.apple.com/support/iphone5-battery/ As for iPhone repair places, just Gogle “iPhone repair” and see what you can find in your city or area. My wife has an iPod Touch 5th Gen which had a faulty/non working home button. It was about 3 months past the 1 year warranty period and I had not purchased Apple Care. I took it to an Apple Store in Vancouver and they told me there was nothing they could do except I could buy a refurbished unit for $150 or I could trade it in and get 10% off on whatever new device I would buy. So I found a place in Vancouver that does cell phone repairs and an hour and 50 Dollars later the home button was replaced and it has been working perfectly since. As for the headset, have you been to an Apple Store and asked if they can take a look, it may just be that some dirt has gotten into the jack. Alternatively, you could use a bluetooth earpiece or hedset or, if you go to a repair place for the battery, ask them to check it out to see what it would cost to replace the defective part. You may find that for what an iPhone 5S 32 Gb costs on a 2-year contract you might be able to get a new battery put into you r 5 and get the headset working again. The reason why I don’t recommend that you upgrade to a 5S right now even if you could find a 64 Gig version is simple. It’s already May and we all know that it is almost certain that in 4 months Apple will release the new 2015 line-up of iPhones. This means that the 5S will most likely go away or, if it doesn’t, it will become the new free phone. Also you will probably see a siginificatn price drop of the iPhone 6 models as the new iPhone 7 or whatever they will call it replaces the 6 and 6 Plus. We should start hearing more rumours as to what is coming soon, but while the 5S is a great phone (I still have mine), keep in mind that it cannot do Apple Pay and going forward I at least would not upgrade to a phone which can’t do that. Of course you may be one of those people who would not want to use Apple Pay for whatever reason, but I do think it is here to stay and will get much more widely adopted in the next year or so. Hopefully it will make its way into Canada by this fall then I’d have another reason to upgrade my 5S to one of the new phones *smile). By the way, if you are comparing the 5S at $99 to the iPhone 6 at $299 then that comparision is not quite fair since the iPhone 6 at $299 is a 64 Gig phone and the 5S at $99 is only 32 Gb. Anyhow, I’d definitely check into having somebody take a look at your iPhone 5 for now, you maybe surprised what they can do and if you decide not to go ahead with a repair then it hasn’t cost you anything except for a bit of time. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sherrie Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2015 6:22 AM To: viphone Subject: Question about restoring IOS 7 backup to IOS 8 phone I have an iPhone 5 running IOS 7. I love the IOS 7 and would never upgrade but I will probably get an iPhone 6 because the 5 is having a few problems such as totally shutting down unexpectedly with no warning when battery is still well above the 20%. Also earphone problems. My question is will I be able to use the restore function in iTunes to put my IOS 7 backup onto the 6 running IOS 8? I plan to keep the 5 for a backup and do not want to upgrade it to IOS 8 before backing it up as the 5 does everything I want right now. Too bad it is having issues. I am still trying to decide if the fact that only old wired earphones with no mic will work on the 5 for now is bothersome enough to justify upgrading to a 6. Since I constantly listen to BARD books this is a biggie. And yes, I have tested numerous wired earphones with mic and they work in other gadgets and not in my 5. By not work I mean no sound at all. For the last two years the Apple earpods would not produce any sound but I ordered Samsung ones that worked fine. Now they won’t produce any sound either. Reduced to using old earbuds that require me to constantly remove the phone from my pocket to do all the things I formerly did with the mic buttons. I have a Juice pack case for the 5 and as long as I remember to give the phone a charge before it gets anywhere near low it seems not to shut down. I wanted a 5S but the salesman at Verizon said they do not come in 64 G any more and I don’t think I could get by with 32 G. So it will have to be a 6 I guess. So back to my original question: Will an IOS 7 backup restore onto an IOS 8 phone? Question 2 If I did go to a 32 G model would I have to set it up from scratch since my iPhone 5 backup has at least 45-50 G of content? Thanks in advance, Sherrie Gosling -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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